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Jan 24, 2025 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
Dalhousie's ShiftKey Labs invites all gamers to get creative this weekend at its 2025 Global Game Jam, an event that promises to help everyone level up their game-creation skills. “It’s a good starting place because you don't need to have any prior knowledge about how to design a game,” says Emily Fenton, general manager at ShiftKey.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
Sai Narayan Karthikeya Redrowtu had his pick of universities in his home country of India and abroad in the U.S., Australia, and Canada when he was finishing high school, but none promised to help him scratch his itch to create quite like Dalhousie.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
Moving from Cairo, Egypt, to Halifax to study in Dalhousie’s Faculty of Computer Science was a big adjustment for Seif Elbayomi (BCS’24). Not only was the weather (a lot) colder, but culturally and academically, he had a lot to learn. Thankfully, learning is something Elbayomi is very good at. Now he’s graduating with a Bachelor of Computer Science (Co-operative Education).
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
Dalhousie’s impact on Atlantic Canada’s tech industry rang out loud and clear at Digital Nova Scotia’s annual awards ceremony last week. Of the eight awards presented at the last Thursday (Nov. 7) in Halifax, four went to someone affiliated with Dal.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
Dr. Rita Orji, a professor and a Canada Research Chair in Dalhousie’s Faculty of Computer Science, has been awarded the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The fellowship recognizes Dr. Orji’s groundbreaking work in novel personalized and adaptive digital interventions powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning and is accompanied by a research grant of $250,000 over the next two years.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
This article is part of a series focusing on fall grads of the Dalhousie Class of 2024. Visit the Convocation website for more information and to access live webcasts of the ceremonies. One single percentage point changed Dave Chuck’s future. The recent Bachelor of Computer Science grad had his eyes on a program at another Canadian university, but when he missed the entrance requirement by one percentage point, his conditional offer of acceptance was rescinded. He had to pivot.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
This article is part of How I Spent My Summer, a series of articles showcasing opportunities Dal students pursued over the past few months — from work-intergrated learning to research positions and more. Scroll to the bottom for more articles. Part of the appeal of a summer co-op placement is putting classroom skills into practice in “the real world.” But what happens if your role involves creating a product...in a completely new language?
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
A team of researchers led by Dalhousie’s Dr. Srinivas (Srini) Sampalli has been awarded $1.6 million from the federal government to train close to 200 students in cybersecurity for emerging technologies. Over the next six years, the program — called “A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Research, Education and Training in Cybersecurity for Emerging Technologies ” — will train highly qualified personnel at the undergraduate, master's, PhD and post-doctoral levels.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
techxplore.com | Emily MacKinnon
Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the world as we know it. It's been used for everything from health-care monitoring to writing speeches. But the technology's impact on the environment is becoming a serious concern. ChatGPT, one of the most familiar AI models, is a form of generative AI that uses natural language processing to respond to user queries in a chatbot-style web interface.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
dal.ca | Emily MacKinnon
Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the world as we know it. It’s been used for everything from health-care monitoring to writing speeches. But the technology’s impact on the environment is becoming a serious concern. ChatGPT, one of the most familiar AI models, is a form of generative AI that uses natural language processing to respond to user queries in a chatbot-style web interface.
